Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VIII. National Spirit. 1904. | | | | I. Patriotism | | England to America | | Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
| | | NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye | |
| Who north or south, or east or western land, | |
| Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth, | |
| Freedom for freedom, love for love, and God | |
| For God; O ye who in eternal youth | 5 |
| Speak with a living and creative flood | |
| This universal English, and do stand | |
| Its breathing book; live worthy of that grand | |
| Heroic utterance—parted, yet a whole, | |
| Far, yet unsevered,—children brave and free | 10 |
| Of the great Mother tongue, and ye shall be | |
| Lords of an empire wide as Shakespeare’s soul, | |
| Sublime as Milton’s immemorial theme, | |
| And rich as Chaucer’s speech, and fair as Spenser’s dream. | | | | |
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